On 2003-01-07 21:00, JoeB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The LS -L command will display the long info about files in a
> directory. FBSD 4.0 through 4.5 LS -L command would display among
> other things the month/day/year the file was created. FBSD versions
> 4.6 and 4.7 displays the hour:minute the file was created in the
> year field instead of the year.
This is done to save some space in the output of ls(1) and yet print
useful information like the `hour:minute' of modification time for
files that have been modified recently (for some definition of
`recently'). The same is done in other BSDs too. Here's output from
a NetBSD 1.6 system that shows similar behavior:
nbsd-> touch -t 199805092317.25 lala
nbsd-> ls -l
total 100
drwx------ 2 gk736 nis 8192 Jan 6 08:25 bin
drwxr-xr-x 4 gk736 nis 8192 Jan 6 23:28 compress
-rw-r----- 1 gk736 nis 30918 Jan 6 23:28 compress.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 gk736 nis 0 May 9 1998 lala
-rw-r--r-- 1 gk736 nis 2563 Jan 7 05:16 text
> To me this looks like there is a bug in the routine that populates
> the file's creation date field upon creation of the file and the LS
> -L command is just displaying what it finds in the year field which
> has been populated with incorrect data.
Hmmm. I'm not sure I understand what is being said here.
There is no bug at this part of ls(1). It simply prints the year at
column 8 for files that have been modified way back in the past, and
uses the same column to print the hour:minute of recently modified
files.
> I am looking for confirmation of my interpretation of the problem
> from other FBSD users, before I submit PR on it.
It's not really a problem, imho. You can always use the -lT options
of ls(1) to print the full time information of file.
- Giorgos
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